How sad to read that our education system appears to be allowing our embryonic scientists to miss the excitement of practical experimentation. Only yesterday I was talking to a man whose scientific epiphany came when a student teacher blew his hairpiece off in a thermite fume cupboard explosion. He said that the sight of the poor teacher reeling from the cupboard sooty of face and removing his goggles to reveal two shocked white eyes will stay with him to his
grave. The class naturally maintained a dignified silence. He went on to become a highly successful chemist, en passent blowing up a sink in his school chemistry lab.
So writes the pseudonymous “Charles Darwin” on his blog.